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Evernote for BlackBerry PlayBook is Here!

We’re big fans of tablets. They’re a great way to get more done at school, at work, at home, and on the go. Of course, everywhere that you would use a tablet, you should also be using Evernote, which is why we’re excited to add a new tablet platform to the Evernote family: the BlackBerry PlayBook.

The interface

To take advantage of the PlayBook form factor, we focused on a two-column approach: a Snippet-filled note list along the left and the selected note on the right.

When you select a note, you can either view it in the two-column view or take to fullscreen by tapping on the fullscreen button near the note title.

Creating and editing notes

To make a new note, tap on the new note button in the top left of the interface. To edit an existing note, select it, then tap on the Pencil icon.

Add a title and body simply by tapping into those regions. If you want to choose a notebook or add some tags, tap on the relevant icons in the top bar of the note.

Attaching files to notes
Evernote for the BlackBerry PlayBook allows you to take snapshots and record audio clips, plus attach existing photos, audio recordings and files to your notes. To do this, tap on the icons along the top of the note. Whatever you choose will be added as an attachment to your note. You can have multiple images, recordings and files associated with a single note.

Searching

Want to find something you saving in your account? Search for it. Tap into the search bar and enter a search. Evernote will then look for that term in the notes body, as well as inside of any images that you have stored in your account.

Sorting your notes

You can also browse through your notes by either notebook or tag by tapping on the selection option near the search bar. Once you’ve selected a specific notebook or tag, you can search within it to get exactly what you’re looking for.

More to come

This is our first release on the PlayBook and we hope you like it. There’s more to come. Let us know what you think in the comments.

Please please please follow this up with a TouchPad app. I’d venture to guess they have about the same number of users as the Playbook at this point, after the fire sale. It would make my new toy absolutely complete.

I don’t exactly want to jump ship on an otherwise great platform just to get Evernote on my TouchPad. The fact that they’re developing it for a lot of varied tablet OSes with not much market share makes me think a native app is not out of the question.

I love the fact that you’ve finally brought Evernote to the PlayBook, as I think this is a killer app for a great business-oriented tablet.

I hope that in the near future you will bring text formatting features to the playbook app. As a lawyer I use my playbook for taking notes and brainstorming. In order to best leverage Evernote for the purpose, being able to use bullets, numbers, indentations, etc… make it far easier to put this information into useable, readable form for future use.

Delighted to have this. Evernote is one of the apps I thought would be very suited to the Playbook – the mobile website isn’t great with a touchscreen. I appreciate being able to put a single note into fullscreen mode to reduce the app interface – makes for better reading!

What do I think? I think you should devote resources to tablet apps for Evernote proportional to marketshare. In other words, I think your attempts to blanket every tablet released is more a symptom of the fact that you have lots of investors, rather than actual justifiable market-based logic.

That said, the iPad version is great, and the Peek app is too. Cheers!

Yes, I would assume they should be strategic. Do we actually know how many resources Evernote has dedicated to developing the app for Playbook? Once they’re on a roll, I think it’s not that expensive. Maybe Evernote is looking at the future of the market rather than just the past. All of the market projections show that there will be a gradual diversification of tablets, Playbook is making a great start and shows a lot of signs of improving in the next few months. Native email, 4G and everything else which critics complained about is around the corner, but I find it works great for me right now. I think it’s good that Evernote is being creative. The alternative is that everyone could just jump on bandwagons and innovation would suffer in the end.

Amen, Raymond! What kind of foolish company would want to increase its market share across platforms? Shame on you Evernote.

Besides, personal choice is SO overrated. Everyone should buy an iPad and be done with it. I also look forward to going back to the good ol’ days when all cars came in any color you wanted, as long as it was black.

I just want to thank you for your effort to make the Playbook version of your App. The Playbook is my daily driver for tablet and this App will see a ton of usage due to the capabilities Playbook provides.

Great to see this on the Playbook, but was very disappointed to see that it wont save new notes for some reason! Tried everything too!! Previous Notes can be edited and saved well, but new ones dont play ball!

This is great, complements the Evernote feature on Blackberry phones, adds great functionality to Playbook. Most consumers will only go where app developers have already gone, it’s a vicious circle. So giving a chance to Playbook with apps like Evernote will help create a more even playing field on which tablet manufacturers can battle out over the coming months.
There should be a way to resize the left window, make the right pane more readable.

Add me to the list of folks who can’t save a new note on Playbook no matter how long I wait. My workaround for now was to create a few “blank notes” on my PC version, then they can be edited and saved in a snap on the PB. Was very happy to see the PB version works bridged even if wiFi not available; that makes local saving less critical for BB owners anyway.

Great to see this. It would be nice to have the screen rotate when holding the Playbook in portrait orientation, especially when adding/editing a new note.
I also have the “save a new note” problem.
Thanks for putting the app out.

Looks like a very polished app. Unfortunately without the ability to edit formated (rich text) notes from other platforms it really limits the uses. I’d really like to use this app for meeting notes but without that ability there are already apps on the platform that save notes in the cloud. Looking forward to the next version!

I’ve been a loyal Evernote Premium owner for a few years, and there’s no better app. I echo many here: where’s the TouchPad version? There are a lot of us out there now, and PondNotes just doesn’t cut it.

The app looks very nice but not having an offline mode means you cant do what your motto states – use anywhere! To often I am not in wi-fi areas when i need to take a photo and add a note. Please, Please add an offline mode! I have 64GB on my playbook!

Absolutely love Evernote, I have a rubbish IT system at work that blocks all file sharing sites, but I have a playbook, a blackberry an iPhone and obviously my home computer. The fact that I can seamlessly go between devices (i.e. take a picture of a business card on my iPhone and upload it) or clip a website on my home computer or even email myself an article makes it a very powerful tool for me at work.

For me this is a first release for Playbook which means it is going to be a little buggy and lacking in capability to some of the more well supported OS’s but it is a really solid base. For me a really good feature would have to be the offline storage of snippets. I am wifi disconnected at some points which isn’t the end of the world as I can set up a wifi hotspot with my iPhone…but sometimes you just want to quickly remind yourself of the title of a note so you can put in a search somewhere else or just tell someone what the name was. Having the ability to store an offline notebook just full of all your snippets to me would be much more valuable than having very randomly selected favourited notes.

I would also add that I really would love a hand written note app embedded so that when i’m brainstorming or writing notes by hand in a meeting I can just add it to the mix. Would be a really powerful addition to the toolset for me.

The ability to have a switchable default view would be nice, as I dislike going straight to a timeline of your notes as a first view. I would much rather view my notebooks first rather than a timeline.

Having a list of your previous tags come up when your adding tags would be nice as sometimes I completely forget my filing system

I would like to see a web clipper available as an integrated feature as well but I’m not sure how plausible that is :S

Anyways…I think you’ve basically hit the nail roughly on the head.

Well done on supporting a very very good platform…these sorts of applications really do let the playbook come into it’s own!

A LOUD Cheers to Evernote!! Thank you for answering our call with the Playbook app. I will now become a premium customer as you’ve completed my computing world by releasing the only missing link! Thanks again!

i love the evernote app for PB on the whole. However like some other users, when I try to edit and save a note, I get an error message ‘RangeError: Error #2006′ . Please can you help sort this problem out?

Evernote versions on other platforms allow you to edit existing rich text. This version only allows you to append to existing rich text (just like ye olde iPhone version of Evernote). Please incorporate editing functionality.

I am a premium user for a couple of years now and I am always happy to pay for this fantastic product. This playbook release is really to bare bones to make it useful and I ended up sideloading the Android version. I at least need offline use to start with.

This app should be pulled from App World. Yes it really is that bad. I have NEVER written a negative review on a free app. That being said… the inability to use the keyboard correctly seems like more than just a little oversight. It’s basically a read-only app. I would pay $10 for a functional version. Uninstall and sideload Android version.

I cannot download Evernote from the App world, it does even appear in searches…
Trying tout get from the Web site Internet got à “not supported in this profile”….
I have a playbook 16gb with uptodate OS version.
Any idea is welcome.